Puerto Rican Genes

A Puerto Rican Look at: Applications for Seaman’s Protection Certificates

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Puerto Rican genealogy typically entails the use of two main resources when it comes to Puerto Rican-produced vital records: (1) the Puerto Rican Civil Registry, and (2) Parish records from the Catholic church. However, as mentioned in various other posts in the past – there are definitely other records out there! I have written about […]

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When an Indexed Record is Wrong

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Originally, I had planned to post about my Ayala family with origins in Arecibo who later appeared in Guaynabo and Toa Alta where my family ultimately settled for close to 300 years; however, in search for more information on the Ayala family I stumbled across a record I had been searching for and had never

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Mapping Out the “de Rivera” Male Descendants

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Earlier in the year, I had used LucidChart to chart out the female descendants of Eglantine Lautin – my 5th great-grandmother. This was done in hopes of identifying which female lines left no female descendants and which ones could provide me with a potential daughter, still alive today, who would be the carrier of Eglantine’s

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A Puerto Rican Look at: 23andme’s New African Groups

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Recently, an email was sent out informing its members that there had been another update on 23andme. I was pleasantly surprised, especially since this had to do with genetic groups in Africa! I was excited to see if any of my own DNA (or that of my family) would be categorized into new African groups,

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A Puerto Rican Look at: AncestryDNA Update 2025

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It is that time of the year where the DNA results get updated again! It seems like just yesterday that AncestryDNA released an update, and yet, here we are again a year later! Let’s take a look at my updated AncestryDNA results and see how I feel about them. There are some new features and

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A Puerto Rican Look at: Updated 23andme Results (2025)

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Recently, at the end of September, 23andMe released a fairly big update to their genetic DNA results. The biggest changes seem to have come to the European section of the results, which have not been majorly updated for about ten years. So let’s take a look, focusing mostly on my European results!  New European Percentages

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A Puerto Rican Look At: Researching Your African Ancestors (Part III) 

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This is my last post in this three part series. Granted, I know there are other cultures that are involved in making up Puerto Ricans such as Corsicans, other Caribbean islands, countries in South America, etc., but I wanted to focus on the three main groups known to make up the Puerto Rican culture –

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A Puerto Rican Look At: Researching Your Indigenous Ancestors (Part II) 

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Following the post on how to trace your Spanish ancestors, I wanted to spend some time talking about tracing your indigenous ancestry. The main takeaway is that this research is hard! Since Puerto Rico became fairly mixed, fairly quickly, it is quite difficult to find your ancestors on paper listed as Taíno. With that in

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An Update to Y-DNA: A look at the Rivera line

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With Father’s Day being today in the United States, I figured I would provide an update to my direct paternal haplogroup which I updated through the Big Y test through FamilyTreeDNA. It took a few months to get the results earlier this year, and I did a new haplogroup assignment. I wanted to go over

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Using LucidChart to Trace the Descendants of Eglantine Lautin

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One of my goals for this year was to create a chart for all of the descendants that I could find for Eglantine Lautin, my 5th great-grandmother. My hope is that by knowing which lines left female descendants, I would be able to find a modern-day descendant who would be able to test for the

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